Whaur did ye get it ?" he asked.
"In an auld buikie o' my father's," answered she.
"Is there ony mair in't like it ?" "Ay, lots." "Jist learn anither, will ye, afore the morn's nicht ?" "I'll do that, Alec." "Dinna ye like it, Curly ?" asked Alec, for Curly had said nothing.
"Ay, fegs! (faith)" was Curly's emphatic and uncritical reply.
Annie therefore learned and repeated a few more, which, if not received with equal satisfaction, yet gave sufficient pleasure to the listeners.
They often, however, returned to the first, demanding it over and over again, till at length they knew it as well as she.
Hut a check was given for a while to these forenight meetings..